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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Share targets don't sync with their installed PWAs

Reported by davmil...@gmail.com, Jan 3

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.67 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Set up two machines with syncing data, including apps.
2. Add a web app that offers a share target on one of the machines (A).
3. Allow the other machine (B) to receive the synced app.

What is the expected behavior?
The added PWA from machine A appears on machine B as installed and with a viable share target for navigator.share.

What went wrong?
Machine B received the web app from machine A's sync, but it did not appear as a share target. The app had to be removed and re-added before it appeared as a share target.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 70.0.3538.67  Channel: stable
OS Version: Fedora
Flash Version: 

Demo of share target: https://web-share.glitch.me/

I also tried it with an instance of Mastodon and had the same issue.
 
Labels: Needs-Milestone
Components: Mobile>WebAPKs
Labels: Sync-Triaged
Owner: pkotw...@chromium.org
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)
Rerouting to pkotwicz@ to clarify what the desired behavior is, thanks.
I don't understand the "What went wrong?" part - we don't sync web apps between devices on android
To clarify, this issue is present in the desktop version of Chrome. I specifically am using two Fedora Linux machines when reproducing the issue. I think the WebAPK tag is incorrect here.
Components: -Mobile>WebAPKs UI>Browser>WebAppInstalls
Owner: dominickn@chromium.org
Thanks
Cc: dominickn@chromium.org loyso@chromium.org raymes@chromium.org ericwilligers@chromium.org
Owner: ----
+eric - web share targets don't appear to sync right now. However, we're in the middle of replacing our PWA container format on desktop. +loyso is working on that project, FYI we'll need to ensure web share targets sync properly through.
Labels: -Type-Bug -Pri-2 OS-Chrome OS-Mac OS-Windows Pri-3 Type-Feature
Also note that we haven't formally shipped web share target on non-mobile OSs yet, so this is a feature request for the future for now.

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